“API’s are how we are going to build software in the future, we are just going to glue it together”. – John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb
Seems everyone is talking about API’s and a lot of people still don’t know what it is and what it does.
Here is an infographic that gives you a basic and general look and some idea on why it is important.
Source: SmartFile
Nice API history lesson. Surprised that SalesForce was the first to introduce the technology.